Hartford was an incredible park city, and by the 1930s it probably had more park acreage per capita than any other city in the nation. From the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War II, Hartford was a city other cities looked at when they wanted ideas for beautiful parks. Today, the city doesn't even have a parks department, and many of the city's greatest parks are shadows of their former selves. So what do cities do about this? Today, we pool some ideas with people from New Haven and Hartford.